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URI hosts computational experts for free seminar

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. – The University of Rhode Island’s College of Engineering will host a free seminar on computational intelligence on Oct. 3. Seven internationally recognized experts in the field of computational intelligence will speak from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Memorial Union Ballroom, 50 Lower College Rd., on the URI Kingston campus. Attendees must register by Sept. 29.

Among their presentation topics will be fuzzy data mining, learning in non-stationary environments, self-organization of swarm robots, big data, cognitive fault diagnosis, and astronomical time-series databases. The event’s organizers say it will have particular relevance to those with an interest in engineering, neuroscience, computer science and psychology.

UPDATE

As a technology-driven society, CIS leads and promotes the use of the technologies. From 1 January 2015, all complimentary copies of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM) to our members will be delivered electronically only. However, paper copies are still available, for a small fee ($15.00), to those who need them. As a society, we are making our small contributions to the environment by cutting the use of paper.

2015 IEEE CIS Awards Program

It is with distinct pleasure to announce the 2015 IEEE CIS Awards Program approved by the AdCom at its meeting in Beijing, China. The awards to be conferred in 2015 include:

Call for Nominations for IEEE CIS AdCom Elections - Term 2015-2017

Each year, five members of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society are elected by the voting members of the Society to serve on the AdCom for a 3-year term. The AdCom represents the members of the Society, defines the strategic goals of the Society, approves the plans for the Society's activities, approves the Society's budget, amendments to the Constitution and Bylaws, appoints Society officers, and authorizes the expenditure of Society funds. Members of the AdCom are expected to attend annual meetings and be involved in Society activities.

Eligibility: All members of the Society of grade higher than Student member and in good standing at the time of the election are eligible to be nominated to the AdCom. Each nominee should be consulted prior to the nomination to make sure that he/she is willing to serve. Self-nominations are acceptable. There are two ways to nominate a candidate:

1) Via nomination through the IEEE CIS Nominations Committee. Please email the following: (i) the name and full contact information of the nominee and (ii) a 250-word vita of the nominee, to the IEEE CIS Nominations Committee Chair, Marios M. Polycarpou(mpolycar@ucy.ac.cy),with cc to the IEEE CIS Executive Administrator Jo-Ellen B. Snyder (j.e.snyder@ieee.org). The deadline for submitting nominations to the above email addresses is June 20, 2014. The IEEE CIS Nominations Committee will select the members to be put on the ballot.

2) Via petition. A valid nomination by petition from the Society's members is guaranteed to put a candidate on the ADCOM electoral ballot. Nominations by petition in 2014 must include at least 134 valid signatures of Society members and need to be submitted in writing (no fax/emails acceptable) to: IEEE CIS President, Xin Yao, c/o Jo-Ellen B. Snyder, CIS Executive Administrator; IEEE Computational Intelligence Society; 445 Hoes Lane; P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855, USA. Alternatively, petitions and signatures can be also submitted electronically through a petition web site established and managed by the IEEE. If you are interested in opening a petition web site, please contact Jo-Ellen B. Snyder, IEEE CIS Executive Administrator j.e.snyder@ieee.org.

Call for Nominations for 2014 IEEE CIS Officers

The following IEEE CIS Officer positions will become vacant in 2014 and need to be filled by election during the ADCOM meeting on July 13, 2014: President-Elect, Vice President for Publications, Vice President for Members Activities, and Vice President for Education.

Eligibility for Vice Presidents: All ADCOM members, Editors-in-Chief, Standing Committee Chairpersons, and Technical Committee Chairpersons, who held at least one of these positions for at least one year in 2009-2013, and are both IEEE Members or higher-grade members and IEEE CIS members in good standing at the time of the election, are eligible to be nominated as Vice Presidents.

Eligibility for President-Elect: All ADCOM members and Editors-in-Chief, who held at least one of these positions for at least one year in 2009-2013, and are both IEEE Members or higher-grade members and IEEE CIS members in good standing at the time of the election, are eligible to be nominated as President-Elect. The IEEE CIS Nominations Committee wishes to receive nominations, including the nominee's complete contact information, and the statement from the nominee that he/she agrees to serve if elected, by June 20, 2014. Self-nominations are also acceptable.

2014 Call for CIS Award Nominations

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society annually recognizes significant contributions and meritorious service in the field of computational intelligence. The deadline for nominations for Awards of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society is the 30 April 2014.

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's awards recognize excellent achievements and outstanding volunteers in the field. Here is a list of the current awards:

IEEE 2014 CIS Industrial Application Success Story

The winner of the 2014 CI Industrial Application Success Story is Dr. Jyh-Horng Chou and his team with their application entitled: "Applications of Intelligent Evolutionary Algorithms in Optimal System Modeling and Mechanical Design".

For more information please view the following page presenting CIS Industry News and Success Stories.

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Workshop

CIS is holding a workshop on "Recent Advances in Computational Intelligence and Its Applications" at 8:30-12:15, 14 March 2014 (Friday), in Auditorium Ollantaytambo, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Av. Benavides 5440 - Santiago de Surco, Lima 33, Peru. The workshop is jointly organised between CIS, the Universidad Ricardo Palma, the CIS Peru Chapter and the IEEE Peru Section. The workshop is free of any registration fees and is open to everyone who is interested in the latest developments in CI. The speakers include Profs. Cesare Alippi, Pablo Estevez, Nikhil Pal, Yaochu Jin, Pauline Haddow, Marios Polycarpou and Antonio Moran. For more information, please see the following flyer.

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Featured Conference

2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA)

To increase the quality of life and better support the economical development, we often appreciate adaptable solutions, simple interfaces, and virtual views for enhanced operation. The wide and increasing needs of adaptable and flexible solutions for many industrial, environmental, engineering, educational, entertainment, and biomedical applications point out the importance of using design methodologies and implementation technologies with high ability of adaptation and evolution. Computational intelligence is one of the most relevant answers to such needs. Virtual environments and human-computer interfaces are essential to effectively understand the operating environment and support interactive applications. On the other hand, accuracy and uncertainty issues as well as suited data acquisition systems must be carefully considered in these applications since the quality of the solution greatly relies on them. Up to now, analysis has been performed mainly to understand the underlying technologies and methodologies, but without any specific focus on the mandatory need of a quantitative assessment and a metrological analysis.

Papers are currently being solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence, human-computer interaction technologies, and virtual environments for measurement systems and the related applications, from the points of view of both theory and practice. This includes, but is not limited to, the following topics listed on the Call for Papers.

"Parkinson's disease is a debilitating neurological condition that affects approximately 1 in 500 people and often leads to severe disability. To improve clinical care, better assessment tools are needed to increase the accuracy of differential diagnosis and disease monitoring. In this paper, the authors report how evolutionary algorithms were used to induce classifiers capable of recognizing the movement characteristics of Parkinson's disease patients. Two different classifier architectures were used: a sliding-window genetic programming classifier and an artificial biochemical network. These classifiers were trained and validated using movement recordings of 49 patients and 41 age-matched controls collected during a recent clinical study. Further analysis indicated a number of features of diagnostic relevance, including the differential effect of handedness and the over-representation of certain patterns of acceleration."

Selected article from IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

Posted: 2014-09-23

An Approach to Subjective Computing: A Robot That Learns from Interaction with Humans, by P. Gruneberg and K. Suzuki, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2014, pp. 5-18.

"This paper describes an approach to subjective computing for the design of future robots that exhibit more adaptive and flexible behavior in terms of subjective intelligence. Subjectivity concerns the relational arrangement of an agent's cognitive space. Subjective intelligence is implemented in terms of the reciprocity of autonomous self-referentiality and direct world-coupling, and the reinforcement learning agent is coached by means of binary feedback. The relational characteristic of subjectivity is further confirmed by a questionnaire on human perception of the robot's behavior. Experiments demonstrate that subjective intelligence in relational terms is fully tractable and therefore implementable in artificial agents."